He squandered his diplomatic tools, and showed earlier this year that he had no stomach for military action against Iran either.
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He told us he'd thought the service would solve his problems, but realized he wasn't cut out for the military life, had no stomach for fighting.
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Ms. Jacobson had no stomach for dating, even though her daughter had begun scanning JDate for eligible men for her mother and prodding her to do the same.
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Social Security privatization was to have been the administration's signature libertarian initiative, but it fizzled once it became clear that even Republican voters had no stomach for it.
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Democrats had no stomach for shutdowns after all, and they agreed to a longer-term budget bill that didn't include a DACA fix, basically trading away their leverage.
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More from David Streitfeld and Claire Ballentine of the NYT: The politicians had no stomach for a protracted battle over jobs, even at a moment when the area's unemployment rate is only 3.1 percent.
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But really it was run by people for whom the Reaganite catechism only mattered because they controlled the inquisition, and once Trump's army of heretics refused to disperse they had no stomach for a fight.
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But Mr. Hutchins had no stomach for an interminable fight and pleaded guilty last week to two counts under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and the Wiretap Act, each carrying a maximum sentence of five years' imprisonment.
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After the turnover, the provincial politicians moved in. They succeeded in placing their own men in sensitive positions in the new municipality because they worked to have officials appointed instead of elected. Gordon had no stomach for the corruption and he resigned from the post of Deputy Governor. He saw how Olongapo was marginalized.
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The depressed Zamorin had no stomach for another failure in the field and dismissed ideas of a renewed direct assault. Delay was also forced by a renewed breakout of the cholera epidemic. Instead, there were just a series of underhanded plots and occasional skirmishes seeking to weaken or draw out the Portuguese position at the passes. As usual, intelligence networks in south India ensured most of the Zamorin's plots were leaked.
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Khrushchev did not resist, and the plotters' coup went off smoothly; Khrushchev felt betrayed by Semichastny, as he considered him a friend and ally until that very moment, not suspecting that he had joined his enemies within the Party."Vladimir Yefimovich Semichastny, spy chief, died on January 12th, aged 77". The Economist (18 January 2001) Khrushchev was then taken to the Kremlin, to be verbally attacked by Brezhnev, Suslov and Shelepin. He had no stomach for a fight, and put up little resistance.
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Although technically soldiers in the National Army, Prónay's men did not follow the standard chain of command. Prónay demanded, and received, suicidal loyalty to himself; soldiers were expected to follow the most brutal orders without hesitation, and those who had no stomach for these activities were expunged from the unit. The Soviet Republic collapsed in August 1919, as the invading Romanian army (supported by French occupational troops) reached the Hungarian capital, Budapest. Kun and his allies fled, and the White Terror intensified.
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During the Second Anglo-Dutch War (1665–67) La Barre was appointed lieutenant general and sent to the West Indies in 1666 to defend them against the English. The intendant at Rochefort, Charles Colbert du Terron(fr), told the minister that La Barre was a poor choice as leader of this expedition since he had no stomach for war. On 7 October 1666 La Barre presented himself to the council on Martinique and registered his commission, dated 26 February 1666, to command the vessels and maritime forces of the islands. Soon after he called an assembly of the senior officers and leading inhabitants of the island to hear their complaints concerning commerce and to respond on behalf of the company.
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European residents walk warily in the streets of Guangzhou, autumn 1883. The French prepared for a major offensive at the end of the year to annihilate the Black Flags, and tried to persuade China to withdraw its support for Liu Yongfu, while attempting to win the support of the other European powers for the projected offensive. However, negotiations in Shanghai in July 1883 between the French minister Arthur Tricou and Li Hongzhang were terminated by the Qing government on receipt of a naively optimistic assessment by Marquis Zeng Jize, the Chinese minister to Paris, that the French government had no stomach for a full-scale war with China.Eastman, 76–84 Jules Ferry and the French foreign minister Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour met a number of times in the summer and autumn of 1883 with Marquis Zeng in Paris, but these parallel diplomatic discussions also proved abortive.
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